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New Camping Equip

BJ Feddish
 

My mechanic has my '83 Westy in the shop so much that I've had to camp in my
EV MV a few times. The lack of storage was driving me nuts so I decided on
building a camping cabinet. I love the Reimo one at Eurocampers but $1100
is a bit out of my price range right now for that. I used that as rough
guide and built . Scroll down to the far bottom
right. I need it this weekend so I rushed to build it over the last 5 days.
It took about 12 hours which means pretty poor construction. ;) Anyway, the
sink I ordered was too big so that will have to wait. If I had to do it all
over again I would order just the sink, pump and water bottle kit for this..



Thanks,

Bryan
Downtown Computers
 

Nice piece of work. It suprised me how nice it looked.

----- Original Message -----
From: BJ Feddish
To: ev_update@...
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 8:04 PM
Subject: [ev_update] New Camping Equip




My mechanic has my '83 Westy in the shop so much that I've had to camp in my
EV MV a few times. The lack of storage was driving me nuts so I decided on
building a camping cabinet. I love the Reimo one at Eurocampers but $1100
is a bit out of my price range right now for that. I used that as rough
guide and built . Scroll down to the far bottom
right. I need it this weekend so I rushed to build it over the last 5 days.
It took about 12 hours which means pretty poor construction. ;) Anyway, the
sink I ordered was too big so that will have to wait. If I had to do it all
over again I would order just the sink, pump and water bottle kit for this..

Thanks,

Bryan
 

Thanks for sharing. It is nearly identical to the stock Westy cabinet
in our 73. We lived in that car for a year in Europe and were pleased
with the layout.....7 1/2 gallons of water, manual pump and icebox.
Who needs all this fancy stuff we have today?

Pete

Pete




-- In ev_update@..., "BJ Feddish" <bfeddish@...> wrote:



My mechanic has my '83 Westy in the shop so much that I've had to
camp in my
EV MV a few times. The lack of storage was driving me nuts so I
decided on
building a camping cabinet. I love the Reimo one at Eurocampers
but $1100
is a bit out of my price range right now for that. I used that as
rough
guide and built . Scroll down to the far
bottom
right. I need it this weekend so I rushed to build it over the last
5 days.
It took about 12 hours which means pretty poor construction. ;)
Anyway, the
sink I ordered was too big so that will have to wait. If I had to
do it all
over again I would order just the sink, pump and water bottle kit
for this..



Thanks,

Bryan



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BJ Feddish
 

Thanks for sharing. It is nearly identical to the stock Westy cabinet in
our 73. We lived in that car for a year in Europe and were pleased
with the layout.....7 1/2 gallons of water, manual pump and icebox. Who
needs all this fancy stuff we have today? <<



My '72 had the same cabinet too. I'm really surprised at the complete lack
of storage the MV and MV Weekender have. Even the under seat area is useless
since the seat moves forward. I strapped some Tupperware boxes under each
seat so they will travel with the seat. I hope it works!



Bryan
BJ Feddish
 

Nice piece of work. It suprised me how nice it looked <<


Think how surprised I am!



Bryan
Carl Henderson
 

Nice job! How did you secure the cabinet to the van?

If you ever want to share some scaled drawings, let us know!

Carl



--- In ev_update@..., "BJ Feddish" <bfeddish@...> wrote:



My mechanic has my '83 Westy in the shop so much that I've had to
camp in my
EV MV a few times. The lack of storage was driving me nuts so I
decided on
building a camping cabinet. I love the Reimo one at Eurocampers but
$1100
is a bit out of my price range right now for that. I used that as rough
guide and built . Scroll down to the far
bottom
right. I need it this weekend so I rushed to build it over the last
5 days.
It took about 12 hours which means pretty poor construction. ;)
Anyway, the
sink I ordered was too big so that will have to wait. If I had to do
it all
over again I would order just the sink, pump and water bottle kit
for this..



Thanks,

Bryan



[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
BJ Feddish
 

Nice job! How did you secure the cabinet to the van? <<


It has 2 large screws at the bottom that fit into the seat holes in the
floor. I am going to rig up another item to the pillar today.

If you ever want to share some scaled drawings, let us know! <<


The plans are penciled chicken scratch on a napkin. And they are wrong! The
first one was too wide. Anyway, when all is settled I'll draw up some
dimensions.



Thanks,

Bryan

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